Outlook Calendar Group Connection Via SharePoint Online Event Lists Not Showing Event Items

Question

I created a SharePoint list to track users vacation/working remote requests. I then created two views(one with vacation requests, one with remote requests) under SharePoint list settings. Once I created those views I created an Event List and added two overlay using the two views I created from my SharePoint list. I saw that the event list had the option under the calendar tab to connect to Outlook (Which is wonderful) however, none of the list items are showing under the group in my outlook.

Answer 1

Hi @Sibley Scarlett, ,

Is your event list like below?

As per my knowledge, overlay calendar views will not be displayed after connecting to Outlook. Indeed, only the event list is connected to Outlook and those you wanted items are in your absence request list. Since there is no item actually in event list, you are going to see nothing in outlook. You can verify this point by accessing work from home view page or vacation view page, you will find Connect to Outlook feature is disabled on those view pages. It is not supported for a list(except calendar/event list) to connect to Outlook.

The alternative way is to create a calendar/event list specifically to store the list items whose absence type == work from home and create a calendar/event list to store the list items whose absence type == vacation. Connect both two event lists to Outlook, check two calendars in Outlook, right-click one calendar and select Overlay.

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